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237 Motherhood in Early America
Episode 237
Mother’s Day became a national holiday on May 9, 1914 to honor all of the work mothers do to raise children.
But what precisely is the work …
7 years, 4 months ago
236 Mixed-Race Britons & the Atlantic Family
Episode 236
Who do we count as family?
If a relative was born in a foreign place and one of their parents was of a different race? Would they count as f…
7 years, 5 months ago
235 A 17th-Century Native American Life
Episode 235
What does early America look like if we view it through Native American eyes?
Jenny Hale Pulsipher, an Associate Professor of History at Bri…
7 years, 5 months ago
234 Farms & Farm Families in Early America
Episode 234
If we want to understand everyday life in early America we need to understand the everyday life of early American farms and farmers.
Roughly…
7 years, 5 months ago
233 A History of Russian Alaska
Episode 233
When we think about colonial American history we think about the colonies of the English, the Dutch, the French, and the Spanish. Rarely do …
7 years, 5 months ago
232 The Acadian Diaspora
Episode 232
Before the English settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 or the Dutch settled near Albany, New York in 1615, a group of French-speaking, Ca…
7 years, 6 months ago
231 The Religious Lives of the Adams Family
Episode 231
Historians use archives to create the histories we love to read, watch, and listen to. So we’re going into one archive to investigate how hi…
7 years, 6 months ago
230 First Martyr of Liberty
Episode 230
Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, Patrick Carr, and Crispus Attucks. These are the five men who died as a result of the shooting…
7 years, 6 months ago
229 The Townshend Moment
Episode 229
Within days of the Boston Massacre, Bostonians politicized the event. They circulated a pamphlet about “the Horrid Massacre” and published i…
7 years, 6 months ago
228 The Boston Massacre
Episode 228
On the evening of March 5, 1770, a crowd gathered in Boston’s King Street and confronted a a sentry and his fellow soldiers in front of the …
7 years, 7 months ago